The Returned Hunter Has Awakened to a Hidden Class - Chapter 116
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Fallen Lands (4)
「Fragment of Turtle Faith」 and 「Fragment of Snake Faith」.
He holds both fragments in his hands and looks at them.
A turtle-shaped stone piece.
An elongated snake-shaped stone piece.
“Is this how you do it?”
Park Min-soo muttered.
Looking closely at the turtle-shaped fragment, there’s a small hole.
As if telling him to insert something into it.
Clatter-
Park Min-soo fits the snake-shaped fragment into that hole.
The long snake enters into the turtle’s body.
Click-
The fragments lock together.
“Oh, ooh!”
The two fragments become one.
Into a completely new form.
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[Item Information] : 「Fragment of Balance」
– Description : A fragment of balance that combines both defense and offense.
– If used in the right place, you can change to the Hidden Class ‘Holy Knight’!
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“Holy! Even the name is very holy!!”
“You like it?”
“Holy good. Kehehehe.”
Behind the fallen Inverse Scale Snake’s massive body, a snake den-like passage appears.
“Shall we go?”
“We have to!”
Following that path leading into the darkness, Park Min-soo and Kim Jun walked in.
Step step
In the darkness where only footsteps echo.
Going down stairs, following the path, and going down again.
The darkness grows deeper, but the two don’t stop.
And at the end of it.
Finally, a vast space appeared.
A place that looks like an Underground Cathedral.
As if an entire medieval cathedral had been moved underground.
Stone-pressed ceiling, pillars standing in rows.
And at the far end, a giant goddess statue stood tall.
As if looking down upon this place.
‘Come to think of it, it’s similar. To that goddess statue from the Red Gate.’
But the cathedral’s floor was.
Filled with countless swords.
Names were carved next to each sword.
The names of those who dedicated everything toward the goddess statue.
And there were stone statues scattered throughout.
Kneeling poses, arms raised toward the sky.
As if proving their faith toward the Goddess.
“Hmm… it makes one feel solemn.”
A place that naturally inspires reverence.
That’s what it was.
The two stood within the weight of that cathedral.
And at the center of it all.
There stood the largest knight statue.
In a position directly facing the goddess statue.
Kneeling on one knee.
A shield in the left hand, a sword in the right.
That sword was raised high toward the goddess.
As if praying for something.
Park Min-soo slowly approached the statue.
Near the statue’s heart area.
It was there.
A perfectly sized hole where the fragment could be inserted.
He held up the “Fragment of Two Sides.”
Grk grk-
He inserted the fragment into the gap near the knight statue’s heart.
Instantly, a thin light bloomed.
‘Now, what will you do, Min-soo?’
Kim Jun recalled his memories from before the regression.
When he first discovered this place in the first cycle, Park Min-soo had already changed to the other Hidden Class ‘Bastion.’
Of course, he could have switched classes, but since they were facing the 99th Floor, he maintained Bastion as it was.
It wasn’t appropriate to change familiar skill structures or play styles before the Great War.
But the current Park Min-soo hadn’t awakened to a Hidden Class yet.
Moreover, Holy Knight was.
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[Class Change Quest Generated]
– Quest Name: Knight Who Offers Faith
– Content: Convert to the Religion of the Tower.
– Reward: Hidden Class, ‘Holy Knight’ class change
– Upon Failure: No penalty
– Will you accept?
[Yes] / [No]
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He had to convert to the Religion of the Tower.
“Wh-what does this mean? Religion of the Tower?”
Park Min-soo asked in a flustered voice.
“Do whatever feels right to you.”
If he refused here, the next Hidden Class ‘Bastion’ could only be obtained on the 50th Floor.
The choice was entirely Park Min-soo’s to make.
“What exactly is this Religion of the Tower?”
Park Min-soo tilted his head and asked the empty air.
At that moment.
Flash-
A thin light appeared.
As if it had been waiting for that question.
[The Religion of the Tower is.]
“Eek, that startled me.”
Park Min-soo took a step back.
The Light spoke.
[A religion that worships this holy Tower established by the great Goddess, and praises her sacred grace.]
The voice was deep and reverent.
[Think about it. Before you came to this place, how unfair was the world?]
[The power given at birth. That was everything.]
[Everyone lived under the curse that what was determined by birth could never be changed.]
[That was an absolute and immutable law.]
[But the Goddess changed everything through this Tower.]
[So that anyone who makes an effort can transcend their own limits.]
[She opened the path so you could level up, gain skills, and grow in power.]
[The Goddess’s blessing permeates every part of the Tower.]
[In these stones, these pillars, every corner of this Space.]
[And everything that has made you grow is precisely that blessing.]
This was a sight that even Kim Jun had never encountered before.
‘Hoh.’
Kim Jun also began listening with interest.
“So… leveling up in the Tower, gaining skills, all those things are thanks to the Goddess?”
Park Min-soo asked slowly.
[That is correct.]
[That you were able to become as strong as you are now.]
[That you acquired new skills.]
[That you gained the opportunity for a Hidden Class job change.]
[All of it is the grace and blessing of the great Goddess.]
“So, if I convert to the Religion of the Tower, what would I have to do?”
Park Min-soo asked.
[Have faith.]
[With a heart grateful for the Goddess’s glory and grace.]
[That alone is sufficient.]
Light answered.
“Really, that’s all there is? No other conditions?”
At Park Min-soo’s question.
[…]
Light hesitated for a moment.
“There is something.”
Kim Jun, who was listening from the side, didn’t know the detailed circumstances very well either.
After all, there wasn’t a single Hunter who had awakened as a Holy Knight.
Hidden Classes were always a position for only one person.
[Just, once a day.]
“Once a day?”
[You need to offer prayers to the Goddess.]
[The merciful Goddess desires only that.]
What exactly was this thing called prayer supposed to do.
Clasping hands toward the sky and muttering something wouldn’t change anything.
Even if it had meaning.
Park Min-soo truly didn’t believe in the Goddess.
There was no sincerity.
What use would prayers offered with such a heart be.
[That is something the Goddess must prove.]
[When you feel the Goddess’s grace through prayer and experience that blessing.]
[Faith will naturally bloom.]
[Do not doubt.]
[Simply kneel toward the Goddess once a day and pray.]
[Creating true faith is entirely the Goddess’s work, not the believer’s.]
“A pleasing answer.”
Park Min-soo muttered.
But contrary to those words.
The uneasy feeling didn’t fade.
Light’s words were plausible.
So plausible that it was rather suspicious.
Could this possibly be a cult.
Wrapped in beautiful words, making it impossible to escape once you enter.
Could it be that kind of religion.
What if something terrible happened from listening wrong.
[Be at ease.]
[The choice is entirely yours.]
[If you refuse, that too will be respected.]
[The Goddess does not coerce.]
[Faith cannot be forced.]
[However, every choice you make, that too would be the Goddess’s will.]
Light’s voice grew deeper.
[It’s fine to refuse. It’s fine to accept.]
[Only your sincere choice matters.]
“Ah, damn…”
Park Min-soo scratches his head.
He contemplates.
‘Should I just not do it?’
But this opportunity that came to him.
‘Ah, what should I do.’
Then.
“Screw it, I don’t know!”
Press-
Park Min-soo pressed something in the air.
[Welcome, new believer.]
[Accept the Goddess’s blessing.]
Following what Light indicated.
Park Min-soo kneels before the Knight’s statue.
In the same posture.
Bending one knee, raising his right hand toward the Goddess statue.
He looks at the Goddess statue.
And opens his mouth to pray.
Thud thud thud…
The first thing he heard was vibration.
That trembling that shook the entire Underground Cathedral.
Thud thud thud thud…
An energy as if something was descending from the sky.
And.
Whoooooooosh-!!
A beam of light descends from above.
At first it was gentle.
Like sunlight caressing the body.
That warm, cozy light.
Park Min-soo’s face softens.
Tears well up.
It’s warm.
Could there be such warm light?
However.
Whoooooooosh-!!!
The light changes.
The coziness disappears.
An intense beam condensed with enormous energy pours down.
It descends targeting Park Min-soo directly.
“Krrgh, uuuuuuuugh!”
Park Min-soo’s body shakes.
The light penetrates his entire body.
As if struck by lightning.
No, much stronger than that.
His muscles resonate.
His bones resonate.
His blood vessels resonate.
That enormous energy flows through every part of Park Min-soo’s body.
“Aaaaaaaah!”
Even so.
“Graaah!”
Park Min-soo never let his praying hands fall.
Those hands directed toward the goddess statue.
They do not waver.
They are firm.
As if proving his own firmness.
The light continues.
It grows stronger and stronger.
But Park Min-soo endures as well.
In a kneeling position.
Even as his entire body resonates and trembles.
That one hand remains raised toward the peak.
And then.
Ssssssss-
Suddenly.
The light changes direction.
From striking down to seeping in.
The massive beam of light is sucked into Park Min-soo’s body.
As if being absorbed.
As if becoming one.
Park Min-soo’s skin glows softly.
Ssssss-
The light continues to flow in.
All of it into Park Min-soo.
And then.
Finally.
Saaah…
The light disappears.
No, it settles within Park Min-soo’s body.
Kim Jun, who had been watching from the side, sensed Park Min-soo’s transformation.
His aura was different.
An aura of a completely different dimension was enveloping Park Min-soo.
Tremendous energy surges around him.
As if the mountain itself was alive and breathing.
Solidity, yes, it was solidity.
The energy surging around Park Min-soo was the very embodiment of the word solidity.
But then.
“Pfft!”
“Pffhaha!”
Kim Jun couldn’t hold back his laughter.
“Why are you laughing? At such a sacred moment!”
“Why are you laughing? At such a solemn time!”
“Poof!”
Because.
“Where would there be a mirror here? Why? What is it?”
Park Min-soo’s hair.
“You’ve gone blonde.”
Had turned blonde.
From black hair to brilliant blonde.
“Huh? Eh? Hm? You’re lying.”
Moreover.
Moreover.
Swish-
“My, my hair has gotten longer…”
The glossy, flowing hair was a bonus.
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